Ryan Blair

Tools

Everyday hardware:

• 15" M4 Macbook Air.
• iPhone 16 Pro.
• Apple Watch Series 10
• A Uni Kuru Toga mechanical pencil.
• A Leuchtturm reporter's notebook.
• A laser printer.
• A desk at HudCo.
• Boox Palma e-reader.

Critical software I choose to use, in rough order of opens per day:

• Obsidian is my exobrain.
• Anki is the bridge between my exobrain and my actual brain.
• I use Claude Pro and ChatGPT Pro.
• Safari is my browser of choice.
• Endel and Apple Music for background noise.
• MarkEdit for working with .md files.
• Readwise.io for collecting passages from books and articles.
• Claude Code (with MCP servers) to remind me how much I once enjoyed coding.
• Firecrawl for web scraping and data extraction.
• GitIngest for digesting GitHub repositories.
• Github for managing personal projects.
• Readwise Reader for RSS.

Critical software I am more or less forced to use:

• Google Workspace.
• Asana.

Some software I enjoyed in the past, but no longer use:

• Fantastical.
• Raycast.
• Omnifocus.
• Tana.
• Things.
• Mimestream.
• Logseq.

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• You can email me: ryan.t.blair@gmail.com
• You can send me a Signal: @rtb.16
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